Example sentences of "took to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Pound revised and expanded this to make The ABC of Reading ( the title is still a misnomer ) , he winkled out of it most of the anti-Englishness that had been present in the first version , when Pound was still smarting from what he took to be England 's rejection of him eight years before , in 1920 . |
| 2 | Between the ideologues and monetarists of the New Right , and the revisionist Marxists of the New Left , defenders of what they took to be the post-1945 social order floundered unhappily . |
| 3 | He lodged what he took to be a legal objection against Ramsey being admitted to be Archbishop of York . |
| 4 | In a speech at Leicester last Friday I stated what I took to be a constitutional axiom : ‘ All the public utterances of the sovereign , ’ I said , ‘ are covered by the advice of ministers . ’ |
| 5 | In nineteenth-century Paris young revellers would melt down chocolate and smear horrified passers-by with what they took to be excrement . |
| 6 | For example , at the next table at the Exmoor Forest Hotel , he had overheard two people talking to each other , a ‘ very well bred looking old man with a dry peevish voice whom I took to be mentally deranged and a woman who was either his daughter or his nurse ’ . |
| 7 | Shortly afterwards Jane went to a friend 's house in Kensington to a musical party where a famous quartet was playing and , sitting on the stairs , talked to someone whom she took to be one of the players . |
| 8 | Sometimes he forgot and gave them again , which she took to be a good sign . |
| 9 | As she knocked twice and opened the door of the shed , Mungo could see what he took to be a workshop . |
| 10 | The Matron pursed her lips , in what Alida took to be sympathy , but she did not comment . |
| 11 | The problem with Seawright was that he openly voiced what many people took to be the true feelings of Democratic Unionists , often to the embarrassment of the DUP spokesmen who were presenting a more moderate position . |
| 12 | He also made sure they did n't go anywhere near Evelyn or Rose whom he took to be troublemakers . |
| 13 | Shiny new BMWs were lined up for sale on the forecourt of what I took to be a condemned block of woefully austere flats , with a dilapidated factory next door . |
| 14 | One angry Dutch CD said after the meeting that he deeply regretted the outcome , especially in view of what he took to be Mr major 's anti-European comments . |
| 15 | Jacques Delors , ’ said the message — in tones which observers yesterday took to be ironical , given the sometimes bitter sparring between London and Brussels over a wide range of policies . |
| 16 | They had a cosy assurance in the obvious existence of a divine architect for what they took to be an elegant and attractive world , neatly designed like one of their drawing-rooms . |
| 17 | On entering the tavern , the Wokingham men saw Chalk and Fowler accompanied by an elderly man whom they took to be the lawyer . |
| 18 | The young Robert Zimmerman had changed his name to Bob Dylan and had been wailing away for a couple of years or so , and Nicholson was among the first of his fans who listened to and studied the words of his anti-establishment anthems , ‘ The Times , They Are A-Changin ’ and his ‘ Mr Tambourine Man ’ which was a taunting , haunting song with a very hard edge that white middle-class youth took to be an ode to a dope dealer , which Dylan denied . |
| 19 | The Commander-in-Chief returned Captain Stirling 's salute with a broad smile on his face , which the latter took to be tacit official approval . |
| 20 | She did quite a lot of snorting , quite a lot of brittle laughter and a very great deal of what Henry took to be assumed inarticulacy . |
| 21 | I had to lift my gaze from the old dashboard that I had sat in front of for more than sixty years to a new one , and the only new one I knew of displayed the dials and instruments of what is called holistic medicine and which at that time I took to be something I knew virtually nothing about . |
| 22 | What I took to be failures were not my failures but simply where I failed to fit in with what others expected of me . |
| 23 | ‘ Detailed ’ Karelius took to be a euphemism for brutal . |
| 24 | Word went round in the seventh century that St James the Apostle had visited Spain , and in the early ninth century a bishop of Padron discovered what he took to be his body . |
| 25 | Some gentlemen dressed in grey whom I took to be equerries had organized us so that the royal party had two corridors , flanked by people , to walk down . |
| 26 | Their administrators then proceeded to act in accordance with what they took to be the finest traditions of their service and stood up for them . |
| 27 | I may have seen many Garter Snakes on sale which I took to be pattern variations on the species most commonly available . |
| 28 | Stephen was disappointed at what he took to be a refusal . |
| 29 | So powerful were the effects of this philosophy that to those who looked down from a higher level in society , the suffering became invisible ; or if not invisible , then transparent , and their view was not arrested by it but looked through it at what they took to be economic verities beyond . |
| 30 | He looked around and saw that the third man was now lying over the roof of the light blue car and firing at them with what he took to be an M1 carbine . |